The Odyssey

Hello. Today I am doing a post on "The Odyssey' by Mary Pope Osborne. I hope that you like it.
This book is about a man named Odysseus who spent more then 20 years at sea trying to find his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. He faced a cyclops, a witch, sea monsters, the dead, gods and goddesses, and evil suitors while losing his men. I really recommend this 6 book series. I will give the names of the books and what numbers thay are. The first book is called "The One-Eyed Giant". The second book is called "The Land Of The Dead". The third book is called ''Sirens And Sea Monsters". The fourth book is called "The Gray-Eyed Goddess". The fifth book is called "Return To Ithaca". The sixth book is called "The Final Battle". I hope you liked my post! Come back any time.

Florida!!!!!

I hope you like this post about Florida!!!!!!!!

State bird: Mockingbird

State flower: Orange blossom

State tree: Sabal palm

State animal: Florida panther

State marine mammal: Manatee

State reptile: Alligator

State butterfly: Zebra longwing

State drink: Orange juice

State gem: Moonstone

I hope you liked it!!!!!!!!!! Bye! Catch me next week for "The Odyssey".

horse facts

Hi. one of my favorite animals are horses. I am doing a post about it. I have facts to go with it. I hope you like it!!!!

1) Clydesdale foals may weigh one ton as an adult.

2) Humans have used horses for war up to World War 1

3) Pit ponys used to work in British coal mines

4) Horses are used in police work. For some places they are found in Canada and New York City

I hope you like my post!!! Catch me next week for ''Florida''. Bye for now!!!!

Chimpanzee

I am doing a special post. It is all about Chimps, in honor of my brother Gabe who acts just like one. I hope you like it!!!!!!!!!!! So here is a list of facts about them. 1) Chimps can't swim most of the time, and don't like water.

2) Chimps know that they look at themselves when you hold a mirror in front of them. 3) When chimps feed they usually do it seperately, but sometimes chimps look for food together.

4) Chimps live in 21 African countries in the middle of Africa.

5) We share similar blood, organs, and brains.

6) Territories can be 30 to 150 square miles.

7) Chimps cling to their mother for the first 30 days of their lives.

8) Chimps live in groups of 15 to 120.

I hope you like my post!!!!!

An Adventureous Fly

I hope you like my post. It is about a fly that travels the world



Once upon a time I was born on a trash heap behind a fancy restaurant in France. I have lots of friends, like crickets, ants, and butterflies. one day my friends flew me out of the trash heap and said I would have to pupate (change into an adult). I would have to eat a ton of food to pupate. I started to eat. I ate eggs, steak, egg nog, red potatoes, and more. It was so delicious!!
After a while I felt a tingle and started to harden up. For a few days my friends were waiting for me. Once I came out my friends were so happy.
I was a fly that wanted to see the world. I packed my bags and went off to see the world. ''Au revor'' (good bye) I said and set off. First I went to England and saw the Queen and she invited me to tea!! Then I went to Egypt, United States, India, China, Russia, Chad, Sudan, Spain, Cuba. When I got home I was made a hero fly. The End

Pyramids

Do you want to know the answer to some mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

1.) The first thing most people wonder about it is what kind of ramp did the Egyptians use to move the blocks that made the pyramid. They used three different ramps: single, spiral, and zigzag.

2.) Most of the time people wonder who the Great pyramid is made for. The top chamber in the pyramid gives proof that the pyramid is built for Khufu.

3.) Sometimes people wonder how the barges that carried the heavy blocks did not sink. The barge was pulled by lots 0f little boats.

4.) People have also wondered how heavy the blocks were. The blocks were 2 to 16 tons.

I hope you like my post. Bye

Book List

I am doing a book list. This list is some of my favorite books so I hope you like it.



1) This book's title is Knight: A Noble Guide for Young Squires. If you like games the book has games and pop-ups and pull-outs. If you like Knights buy this book NOW!!!!!!!!



2)This book's title is The Book of Beasts. This is about a boy named Lionel who was crowned king. After he was crowned he found a book in the castle library called The Book of Beasts. When he opened it creatures came out of it.



3)This book's title is Real Knights. It has 20 different knights. All of the stories are true. I love this book because it has knights. If you have to do a essay on knights buy this book now!!!!!!!!!

Hope you have a great day. Bye.

Atlanta Trip

In this first picture I am petting Gypsy (she is my uncle's dog). In the next picture Gabe is coming out of a whales mouth. It was a slide in the Georgia Aquarium.

Here is the side veiw of the whale slide (above)Then I put a picture of me coming out of it. I just love this orange fish just because it's orange. Orange is my favorite color.

Here is a photo from Centennial Olympic Park.

Here is Gabe playing with Uncle Alan's fan. I am petting Gypsy (again), I just love that dog.

Here is a group shot with our uncles at the Chattahoochee river. I hope you enjoyed seeing our trip to Atlanta to visit with them.

Have a great day!

Happy birthday DAVID !!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DAVID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE
SAM.

Time for a Song

OK it is time for a song. It is sung any way you want!(Oh and it is world style.)

I love Egypt, I love Egypt and the world too, and the world too. In Greece there is the Parthenon, the Temple of Zeus, and the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. In Egypt there is King Tut, the Pyramid of Unas (U-nas), the Great Pyramid of Giza, and Abu Simble(sim-ble). In China there is the Great Wall of China. In India there is the Taj Mahal. In England there is Big Ben. In France there is the Eiffel Tower and that brings our world tour to a end!!!!!!!

THE END

Lowe's

Gabe is so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to Lowe's! Two days ago we had a ''Build and Grow Clinics'' which the next one on May 9Th is a flower pot. HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!! I am so sorry. . . but it was so funny!!!! OK here is a ''Rain Flower''. The top one is Gabe the bottom one is me. We are holding the finished ''Rain Flower''. It was kinda easy but the nails were too bendy ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK lets just say this. . . . we waited half a hour because they lost there tables and the sets we were supposed to do (we were supposed to do a hang glider) oh and the tables were wood planks.

OK! now me and Gabe also made a Birdhouse and a tic-tac-toe broad which took eight nails to make ware it took me 23 nails to take! I was so envious of Gabe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here I am making my Birdhouse and I am going to paint it later.

Oh and Gabe was so cute when he finished he was so happy he wanted to play 2 rounds of tic-tac-toe with daddy. Gabe won one round and daddy won the other round.

So I hope you like the post! Bye!

Egyptian landmarks

The Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx

1.) It is thought the nose of the Great Sphinx was shot off by Napoleon's men, but this is not true. There are signs that the nose has erroded away over time.

2.) Ramesses II may have tried to restore the Great Sphinx.

3.) The Great Pyramid is built for Khufu.

4.) Herodotus, a ancient greek historian, was told by his Egyptian guides that it took 22 years for a force of 100,000 oppressed slaves to build the pyramid. Stones were lifted into position by the use of huge machines and the purpose of the structure, according to Herodotus's sources, was as a tomb for the Pharaoh Khufu.

Herodotus was partially wrong. The Great Pyramid was a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu, but it is believed that less people were used to build the pyramid and they were not slaves. Also, simple machines such as pullies and sleds moved the stones.

The Temple of Luxor

1.) The Temple of Luxor held the Festival of Opet. Built largely by Amenhotep III and Ramesses II, it appears that the temple's purpose was for a suitable setting for the rituals of the festival.

2.) Known in the Egyptian language as ipet resyt (ipet-isut), or "the southern harem", the temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amun, Mut, and Chons and was built during the New Kingdom. The focus of the annual Opet Festival, in which a cult statue of Amun was paraded down the Nile from nearby Karnak Temple to stay there for a while, with his consort Mut, in a celebration of fertility.

King Tut's tomb

1.) It is not the grandest tomb in Egypt, and was certainly not occupied by one of Egypt's most powerful rulers. But in general, the population of the world know the tomb of Tutankhamen (KV 62) better then any other. Compared to all the other royal tombs, it was found mostly intact. What was found in this tomb shows us why tombs were robbed.

2.) The King Tutankhamen started ruling the ancient Egypt about 3,500 years ago at age of 7 or 9 and he was dead at age of 16 or 18 or 19. His reign was short and nothing seriously important happened. The most interesting thing about him is his mysterious death.

3.) King Tut's curse is not real!


Bye.

Greek Gods

Again I have to do a blog post for school work and like you heard last week I will do Greek Gods.

1.) Zeus, King of Gods

2.) Hera, Queen of Gods, Goddess of marriage

3.) Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty

4.) Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt and the Moon

5.) Hermes, Messenger of the Gods

6.) Poseidon, God of the Sea

7.) Apollo, God of Poetry and Light

8.) Demeter, Goddess of Farming

9.) Athena, Goddess of wisdom

10.) Ares, God of War

11.) Hestia, Goddess fo the Home

12.) Dionysus, God of Wine

Bye p.s next week is Roman Gods

Egyptian Gods

I really like Egypt and I have to do a blog entry for schoolwork. Today for my entry I thought that I would share some of my favorite Gods with you. Hope that you enjoy. Here is a link to a site that you can look at to learn more about Egypt.



1.)Amon-Re, King of Gods

2.)Nut, Goddess of Sky

3.)Geb, God of Earth

4.)Hapy, god of the Nile

5.)Isis, Goddess of Medicine

6.)Horus, God of the Pharaoh

7.)Osiris, god of the Underworld

8.)Seth, God of Evil

9.)Re, God of the Sun

10.)Thoth, God of Wisdom

11.)Anubis, God of Mummification

12.)Baset, Goddess of Cats



Next week we will do Greek gods. The links pages are 4 to 45

Happy Birthday Papa

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PAPA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What you may not have known

OK this post is about what you may not have known, so I hope you enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

1.)On Greek pottery the subject is all most always sitting down.
2.)In Egypt the king is thought to be a god and also thought to have the ability to guard the world from evil.
3.)Hoplites are Greek foot soldiers.
4.)Nobody knows why the Great Sphinx was built.
5.)The Egyptian god Seth is so evil that it takes all the Egyptian gods to beat him.
6.)Greece wanted the olympics to always take place in Athens.

Hope you have a good day!

Race to Witch Mountain

Ok I saw a great movie last sunday it is called ''Race to Witch Mountain''.
It is about two alien kids that landed on earth to help their parents who were in trouble which you will find out what happened to them later in the movie. When they landed on earth, they got help from a taxi driver who is played by Dwayne Johnson and a scientist who is eager to help the aliens. The movie is based in Las Vegas Nevada. Oh there is some really funny scenes in the movie. I hope you like it

Egypt...part 3!!!!

Hi today we are going to the time machine . We are going to ancient Egypt!!!!!!!!!
First we are going to look at the gods of Egypt. First up is the king of the gods Amon-Re next is my favorite god Thoth then Isis and then Anubis and last but not least is the cat god Bastet who is the god for you if you like cats. Next is monuments. Does this look familiar? Right it is a obelisk like the Washington monument in D.C. There was so much more monuments that the Egyptians where famous for!

The Egyptians where also famous for mummys which are so interesting to study! I really want to say how mummys where made but it is so inappropriate on a blog!

Next is the tomb. there is so many things in tombs even toys some times there is nothing at all in tombs not even mummys! Egypt is a world of wonders

this is made for a king or per-aa. Kings where thought of as living gods they where so royal they where buried.

So that is all for now. Bye

Tooth Time! !

Well now Gabe lost his tooth this morning! The tooth fairy will get Gabe's tooth tonight(that's if she remembers. LOL!). I told him the tooth fairy would leave him one dollar and he was so happy!!
Mom said to ask me to take a photo of him. We were so excited!!

So i just have to say this . . . I love you Gabe!!! So thanks tooth fairy.

Have a good day. From Sam.

Greece-part 2

Today I am doing a post about Greece and here is what look forward to knowing more about.
Ok here is a few facts. In 1687 the Venetians, under Francesco Morosini, attacked the Ottomans in Athens. The Acropolis had been made stronger by the Ottomans . The building was also used as a gunpowder store and when the Parthenon took a direct hit from a cannon fired by the Venetians from the Hill of Philopappus, the gunpowder exploded and destroyed a large part of the building. Morosini and his men soon plundered the building, looting what they could find and destroying the rest, leaving the partial ruins that can be seen today. I also want to know why the Acropolis was built.

Work began on the Parthenon, built on the Acropolis, in 447 BC to replace an existing temple which was destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC and cost 469 silver talents to build. The work began under the orders of Pericles to show the wealth and exuberance of Athenian power. The name of the building most likely came from a cult statue of Athena Parthenos housed in the eastern room of the building. This magnificent structure was built of ivory and gold and was sculptured by the renowned sculptor Phidias. Phidias also built the statue of Zeus.

Blue and White. These two colours symbolise the blue of the Greek Sea and the Whiteness of the restless Greeks waves. According to the mythic legends, the Goddess of Beauty, Aphrodite emerged from these waves. Also, it reflects the blue of the Greek Sky and the White of the few clouds.

And I look forward to know even more than that!!!!! The world is such a cool place there is so much more to know.

bye for now. Sam

Sick Day

Sick days are so sad. Yesterday when he chased dad he said ''My tummy hurts.''. A few hours later he tryed to have a nap. So cute!!!!!!!!!!! I just took him out of the bath when he started crying which made me so sad. He had two more naps after his last nap he was ok!!!!

He is so cute sleeping right? I give Gabe my love. I LOVE YOU GABE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is so cute isn't he?

I LOVE YOU GABE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In this photo Gabe looks tired.


Bye from sam

Japan

Hi. Now it is time to learn about Japan.
Tokyo is the capital and the largest city in Japan. Is this photo down here pretty, no?

Japan is so pretty. Time for links. First is for sports in japan next is for photos and the last is for more photos.

Bye for now.

the alien and his friends

I hope you enjoy this story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once there was an alien that everybody loved. The alien worked at a busy office. One day one of his friends locked him in his office. The alien was stuck in his office for 1 week. When the office opened the alien ran out an hugged his boss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His boss laughed so hard he fell over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then his boss said the alien was the boss now. Then he went to work. Later while the alien was still working his friends made him a party to show how good he is doing. They have strawberry banana crepes for lunch. When he saw the party he loved it. The end.

MIAMI METRO ZOO

OK this post is about the Miami zoo. This okapi can lick up to its eyes! The one on the left is drinking milk so its a baby.
These giraffes are so cute! Time for fun facts brought to you by Sam's side! Did you know giraffes have the largest eyes of any mammals!

This shell is as big as me and I am 4 ft 6in.

Dad said the animals where protesting and this one stinks!

That's all for now bye